A bit about me

Current Position

Scientist III, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA

Building computational infrastructure and tools and leading data analysis projects for petascale electron microscopy volumes of the nervous system.

Previous roles

  • 2012–2018: Research specialist (a.k.a. postdoc) with Albert Cardona at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI.
  • 2010–2012: Postdoc with Albert Cardona, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zürich and University of Zürich

Education

  • 2004-2010: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with Prof. Leonard Sander
  • 2000-2004: B.S., University of Washington, Seattle in Mathematics & Physics (with honors)

Selected Publications

(For a full list of publications, see my Google Scholar profile)

  1. (µ) C M Schneider-Mizell, et alia… , N M da Costa. Cell-type-specific inhibitory circuitry from a connectomic census of mouse visual cortex. In press, Nature. [BioRxiv]

  2. S. Dorkenwald (&), C. M. Schneider-Mizell (&), D. Brittain, A. Halageri, C. Jordan, N. Kemnitz, M.A. Castro, W. Silversmith, J. Maitin-Shepard, J. Triodl, H. Pfister, V. Gillet, D. Xenes, J.A. Bae, A.L. Bodor, J. Buchanan, D. J. Bumbarger, L. Elabbady, Z. Jia, D. Kapner, S. Kinn, K. Lee, K. Li, R. Lu, T. Macrina, G. Mahalingam, E. Mitchell. S.S. Mondal, S. Mu, B. Nehoran, S. Popovych, M. Takeno, R. Torres, N. L. Turner, W. Wong, J. Wu, W. Yin, S. Yu, R.C. Reid, N. M. da Costa, H.S. Seung, F. Collman. CAVE: Connectome Annotation Versioning Engine. bioRxiv 2023.07. 26.550598 (2023). In press, Nature Methods. [BioRxiv]

  3. (µ) A L Bodor (&), C M Schneider-Mizell (&), … N M da Costa. The Synaptic Architecture of Layer 5 Thick Tufted Excitatory Neurons in the Visual Cortex of Mice. In revision. [BioRxiv]

  4. N. Turner (&), T. Macrina (&), J. Bae (&), R. Yang (&), A.M. Wilson (&), C.M. Schneider-Mizell (&), K. Lee (&), R. Lu (&), J. Wu (&), A. Bodor (&), A. Bleckert (&), D. Brittain (&), E. Froudarakis (&), S. Dorkenwald (&), F. Collman (&), N. Kemnitz (&), D. Ih, W. Silversmith, J. Zung, A. Zlateski, I. Tartavull, S. Yu, S. Popovych, S. Mu, W. Wong, C. Jordan, M. Castro, J. Buchanan, D. Bumbarger, M. Takeno, R. Torres, G. Mahalingam, L. Elabbady, Y. Li, E. Cobos, P. Zhou, S. Suchow, L. Becker, L. Paninski, F. Polleux, J. Reimer, A.S. Tolias, R.C. Reid, N.M. da Costa, H.S. Seung. Reconstruction of neocortex: Organelles, compartments, cell, circuits, and activity. Cell, 185 (6) (2022) [Journal]

  5. C. M. Schneider-Mizell (&), A. L. Bodor (&), F. Collman (&), D. Brittain (&), A.A. Bleckert (&), S. Dorkenwald (&), N.L. Turner (&), T. Macrina (&), K. Lee (&), R. Lu (&), J. Wu (&), J. Zhuang, A. Nandi, B. Hu, J. Buchanan, M.M. Takeno, R. Torres, G. Mahalingam, D.J. Bumbarger, Y. Li, T. Chartrand, N. Kemnitz, W.M. Silversmith, D. Ih, J. Zung, A. Zlateski, I. Tartavull, S. Popovych, W. Wong, M. Castro, C. S. Jordan, E. Froudarakis, L. Becker, S. Suckow, J. Reimer, A. S. Tolias, C. Anastassiou, H. S. Seung, R. C. Reid, N. M. da Costa. Structure and function of axo-axonic inhibition. eLife;10:e73783 (2021) [Journal]

  6. (µ) MICrONS Consortium et alia. Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex. In revision, Nature. [BioRxiv]

  7. S. Gerhard, I. Andrade, R.D. Fetter, A. Cardona, C.M. Schneider-Mizell. Conserved neural circuit structure across Drosophila larva development revealed by comparative connectomics. eLife:e29089 (2017) [Journal]

  8. T. Jovanic (&), C.M. Schneider-Mizell (&), M. Shao, J.-B.Masson, G. Denisov, R.D. Fetter, B.D. Mensh, J.W. Truman, A. Cardona, M. Zlatic. Competitive disinhibition mediates behavioral choice and sequences in Drosophila. Cell, 167 (2016) [Journal]

  9. C.M. Schneider-Mizell (&), S. Gerhard (&), M. Longair, T. Kazimiers, L. Feng, M. Zwart, T. Ohyama, M. Zlatic, A. Champion, F. Midgley, R. Fetter, S. Saalfeld, A. Cardona. Quantitative neuroanatomy for connectomics in Drosophila. eLife:e12059 (2016) [Journal]

  10. T. Ohyama (&), C.M. Schneider-Mizell (&), R.D. Fetter, J.V. Aleman, R. Francoville, M. Rivera Alba, B.D. Mensch, K.M. Branson, J.H. Simpson, J.W. Truman, A. Cardona and M. Zlatic. A multilevel multimodal circuit for action selection in Drosophila, Nature, 520 (2015) [Journal]

Full CV

Please find a full CV here. [Last updated Sept 2024]